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Chicago examiner j ,._- Chicago and vicinity fair mon x'f day probably becoming unsettled /,.' tuesday not much change in tem f perature moderate westerly winds becoming variable temperature for the day highest 28 c^sg lowest u )$^ avenge 20 vol ix no 4 a m monday Chicago december 26 1910 16 pages monday registered in d s patent office enter the word contest 5,000 in valuable prizes will be awarded to successful contestants see wart ad pages price one cent g * 525 examiner's fund gives yule cheer i children in glee see santa aus and receive heart's content in gifts nks for the chums ago patrons of the desti te care for all homeless youngsters stmas that was real a feast day d and joyous enveloped Chicago day ity organized and widespread as before penetrated even the nooks rners of the poverty-smitten quarters town and the most squalid homes rowded institutions knew the glory noel celebration e may have been homes that santa i stockings hung up that he forgot so these eluded the most vigilant ever made in Chicago for the little ags of the poor lodly share of this christmas gayety the unfortunates was financed by 110 fund for the examiner's christ harities made possible through the generosity Chicago home for the friendless at first street and vincennes avenue re santa clans betimes yesterday morn the youngsters 203 of them were ag soundly shortly before 6 o'clock they were awakened by three shrill from a trumpet dazed and dream ley opened their eyes to find santa iu their midst and two magnificent the gift of the examiner's fund g in glory ; captures santa claus of cribs and beds they tumbled but happy crowding around the of the day and little james the it-eyed curliest-headed baby of them ttie five-year-old james the mother atherless pet of the home rushed up ta clutched him tightly rouud the and cried out shrilly ove you oh i love you santa " l child got a new pair of stockings 1 with candy and nuts aijjd fruit and dolls for the girls games balls and for the boys and when it was all the little night-gown brigades eud into bed again hugging their toys gleefully exchanging reports of the rations into the treasure depths of brand new hosiery nwhile the industrial class composed xteen of the older girls marched h the halls arousing all the resi of the home with the sweet music fashioned christmas carols at noon was a turkey and chicken dinner ry best of their kind in is santa claus jordan was the kris kringle and the programme was planned by miss ng superintendent of the home e couldn't have had a nicer christ 1 said miss helbing everybody was nerous and i wish that i conld per y thank all those who contributed to ixaminer fund for the presents and wo trees that the examiner sent us were really lovely the Chicago industrial sebool had its celebration thanks to the examiner's con tributions yesterday morning at 11 o'clock the salvation army will have their trees to-morrow evening and the volunteers of america their parties through the week christmas dinner for the jail will be served to-day good shepherd benefits i the house of the good shepherd also benefited by the examiner's fund brushes combs and workboxes were given to the lder girls and women and candy and toys to the smaller children each of the county institutions had turkey chicken and goose dinners altogether the county institutions and their 0,000 inmates and charges had 8,000 pounds of turkey these institutions the dunning insane asylum county hospital juvenile deten tion home and oak forest infirmary had christmas trees as well as feasts the re mainder of the examiner's christmas din ners will be distributed this week county agent joseph meyer who gave out christmas supplies to 6,000 families the latter part of last week kept his offices open all day yesterday and such of the poor as had been forgotten or overlooked were cared for there 2,873 italian children made happy at mission there were 2,873 separate and distinct kind of joy yesterday at the guardian angel mission 714 forquer street in the heart of the italian settlement just that many members of the second largest sun day school iu the world participated in the mission's eleventh christmas festivities vo woman iu Chicago was happier than mrs w a amberg who was one of the prime movers in the establishment of the mission of which bishop dunne of peoria was the priest in its struggling early days her joy in serving the little folk was dress expert opposes pajamas for women mrs ellen richards declares attire suggested for home use will not give freedom expected boston mass dee 25 mrs ellen richards one of boston's foremost dress experts disagrees with her english cousins who advocate that women work in the household attired in pajamas with a ki mono handy in case callers arrive she says that man's garments do not in reality give him the freedom of movement he believes he enjoys and declares ibat women would not have the ideal working attire if garbed in pajamas mrs rich ards has traveled all around the world and her idea of an ideal costume for women is the attire of the peasantry of norway the norwegian peasant costume is the most comfortable she explained it con sists of a skirt terminating about ten inches above the floor no corsets are worn and the waist is made to fit snugly an apron helps protect the knees and the en semble of clothes is loose fitting moderate heeled broad shoes are preferred in this costume they go into the moun tains to spend the summer tending their goat herds it allows them absolute free dom of movement six drown as ship sinks off dutch coast crew goes down when the liner finland strikes the baltique ten men are rescued special cable to the examiner antwerp dec 25 the steamship finland and belgian steamship baltique were in collision to-day at the mouth of the river escaut or scheldt as it is more commonly known the baltique sank quickly and six sailors all the members of the crew ex cepting ten men were drowned the rescued were taken on board the finland the men who were drowned were sleep ing at the time of the accident and went down with the steamer the finland has gone to newcastle to investigate what damage she sustained d'aulby's son in Chicago countess said to be coming to edu cate children in . u s special cable to the examiner paris dec 25 behind the suit brought by the duchess de choiseul pras ten against the self-styled count d'aulby whom she charges with selling to her late husband 200,000 worth of fake paintings the american colony sees nothing more ihan a skirmish in a social war which the duchess and d'aulby's wife have long waged the duchess was lucy tate be fore phe married charles hamilton paine the countess was francesca lunt both women are former bostonians the suit may have the effect of seeding them into retirement for a time countess d'aulby recently expressed a desire to have her children educated in america and she may return there her twelve-year old son is with her sister in Chicago u s to stop filibuster cruiser tacoma guarding honduran capital from bonilla special cable to the examiner puerto cortbz honduras dec 25 the american ship hornet which sailed from new orleans last week is reported to be heading for this port with general manuel bonilla and general lee christ mas and a party of american filibusterers on board their object it is said is to bombard the palace and overthrow the davlla government the american cruiser tacoma is stripped for action and ready to stop the hornet should it attempt a bombardment blue jackets will be landed to patrol the streets of this city girl helps save 5 lives two are drowned trying to reach bark in thirty-mile gale norfolk va dec 25 miss addie parkerson sixteen years old helped to launch a life boat and save five men from the bark kingdom in chesapeake bay near ocean view last night seven men from the bark attempted to go to their ship in a dory and were capsized in a thirty-mile northwestern gale a sailor named st clair and another man o'connor were drowned the men were all members of the holy ghost and us sect a new re ligion that hud its origin in maine the five survivors refused to toil their names to build 500,000 temple spiritualists subscribe 100,000 as beginning of fund new york dec 25.-tbe rev rufus a macurda of the first spiritualist so ciety of new york announced to-day that a temple costing 500,000 will be erected shortly by that society within a short time he said more than 100,000 has been pledged by a group of wealthy persons among them several millionairei who are interested in the spirit cult the edifice will be named temple of the divine in spiration and will be erected in the cen tral part of thr^lty bandit holds up a train and escapes passenger shot in head lone robber relieves 20 of money and valuables cuts bell cord and disappears kansas city mo dec 25 a mis souri pacific train from st joseph due here at 10:20 to-night was robbed just be fore entering kansas city kan by a lone masked robber who boarded the train at leavenworth junction the bandit began at tffe rear of the train nnd lined up the passengers with a re volver held in one hand while he searched them with the other taking watches and money twenty persons were robbed end ing with the conductor s 0 may of kan sas city the robber jumped from the train at a dark spot inside the kansas city kan limits and escaped r m johnson a civil engineer of leav enworth was struck on the head by the bandit who used his gun for a club john son was too slow in raising his hands when commanded to do so . i entered the observation compartment at that moment and thinking that some one of the boys was playing a christmas joke said conductor may to-night i asked here here what are you doing " hold up your bands â€” you replied the robber i didn't get them up fast enough and he made a swat at me with his gun j striking me but not injuriug me severely | i got my hands iup in _ hurry and then j his next command was turn your faces to the wall a man who said his name was n'ediow turned and made a move that was inter preted as unfriendly by the robber for at that instant a bullet was sent through his scalp causing a severe wound one by oge the robber took us and searched us throwing our tickets and pa pers on the floor and taking our money and watches as he finished he pulled out a knife and cut the signal cord this pre vented us from signaling the engineer at the outskirts of kansas city we made the usual stop for the northwestern railroad crossing at that place the robber compelling the porter to open the vesti bule doors and he jumped off the train the distance between leavenworth and kansas city and in iwhieh the robber oper . ated is twenty-seven miles there are no stops in this distance holly is cause of death inserted in burner falls turns on gas and kills woman it was a cheerless christmas for mrs edward e tiffin of 5118 cornell avenue for yesterday morning when she knocked at the door of her mother's room lips formed trj wish her a merry christmas she found her parent mrs eda may simp son cold in death an open valve on the gas burner was silent evidence of the cause we had a holly wreath attached to the chandelier of mrs simpson's room said mr tiffin and in the night it became detached probably from the vibration of an Illinois central train there was a twig of this holly inserted iu a hole in the tap of the fixture we found the holly on the floor iu falling the twig of the holly turned the tap which was loose and allowed the gas to escape wild man points to gold miner tells of half-clad desert inhab itant who gives away mine san bernardino cal dec 25 clad only in a breechclout wearing sandals and armed with a shotgun a wild man is at large in the colorado desert according to the statement of philip hess a miner he says he has verified this statement by filing on a gold claim which he says is fabulously rich and which he declares was shown to him by the wild man stake that out the wild man is re ported saying and go back and tell your friends that a man who was once a rich new yorker and blew in a fortune guided yon to riches captain bartlett of otis who believes he knows the identity of the wild man has gone to search for him economy delays mails shortage of postal clerks hampers handling of holiday letters if yon didn't get that christmas package don't worry it is riding around some where in the united states because the government is economizing hundreds of tons of mail matter according to railway mail clerks have been riding back and forth on the various railroads for the simple reason that there are not enough men on duty to handle them the post master general has been conducting his boasted economy at the expense of the public said a weary mail clerk i re ceived a letter to-day that had been four days coming from des moines la prof a s hill is dead boston dec 25 adams sherman hill professor emeritus of rhetoric and oratory at harvard university and the author notable books on rhetoric died at his home here to-day aged seventy-seven years thugs drag woman in alley to beat her escape after a chase mrs mary bruck wife of furni ture dealer attacked in shadow of home attacked by two thugs almost within the shadow of her home shortly after dark last night mrs mary bruck forty live years old 1019 west monroe street was severely beaten and is in a critical condition mrs bruck is the wife of henry bruck a wealthy furniture dealer at 1131 west madison street the attack was made at sangamon and monroe streets my wife was returning from the home of her brother james callaghan 273 south sangamon street when she was at tacked by two men said her husband last night her brother john is dead and she went to the home of her brother james to take care of the children while he arranged for the funeral thugs hide irr-alley there is a small alley on monroe street near sangamon the thugs hid in this place and when she passed they seized her and dragged her into the dark passage way they did not attempt to search her but set upon her with their fists and beat her terribly her right ear is almost severed and she is badly bruised about the he*d ana body there is a cut two inches long on her cheek mrs bruck was not able to give a description of the men but i am convinced that the attack was prompted by the news that she w<suld receive her dead brother's insurance the men evidently boat her with the idea of stealing the insurance papers they thought she carried men chased several blocks mrs bruck was found by daniel hickey 206 aberdeen street who chased her as sailants for several blocks the jiolice searched the neighborhood for hours after the attack was reported but did not find the men horan to be buried to-day morris subscribes 30,000 thousands mourn at graves of fire victims christmas a day of funerals while families bereft by tire stock yards fire were burying their dejjwkstterday and preparations were being made for the iu terment of marshal horao to-dny quiet an nouncement wasy made by the citizens re lief committee thnt edward morris had contributed 2tmwb additional to the fund for the care of fire victims dependents when the lists were first opened the head of the company whose plant was the scene of twenty four fatalities gave 5,000 so that his total contribution is 80,000 mr morris wrote the second check friday but it was deemed advisable that the fact be given as little publicity as possible at the time b e sunny made it known yester day the man who led the little coterie of his followers into the jaws of death thursday will be buried to-day with all the military pomp and dignity which might indicate how a great city can sorrow and fire marshal james horan and another great tragedy will have passed into the somber pages of chicago's history eight of his men who died by his side were buried yesterday and nine more will share with their chief to-day the homage due heroes the last of the little band of twenty-five will be buried to-morrow and the stockyards horror will sink into some recess of the memory to join the crib the fish the st luke's the iroquois and the other of chicago's holocausts to serve simply as a milestone on the calendar a hose wagon will serve as the funeral car to transport the body of marshal horan to its final resting place in calvary ceme tery the final details of the impressive funeral ceremonies which will commence this morning at 9 o'clock were completed yesterday archbishop quigley will deliver the funeral sermon at the holy name cathedral in a setting that will be both solemn and impressive ' police to lead cortege promptly at the appointed time the pro cession which will be headed by a platoon of policemen under the leadership of cap tain healey will start from the horan resi dence on ashland boulevard north of jack son boulevard and follow the line of march which was agreed upon by city officials yesterday the process'ion will march east on jackson boulevard to state street then north on state street to the cathedral fol lowing the police squad will come the first cavalry regiment illionls national guards led by colonel milton j b'oreman mayor fred busse accompanied by the entire staff of city hall department heads will also be in line while the city council as a whole will accompany them 1 five thousand knights of columbus representing the forty-five councils of the ' order to Chicago will march from the house to the cathedral headed by state deputy james maher and at least 500 more men members of the fourth degree assembly of the order will take part in the cere monies : rase to a special call a military hand of forty pieces will pre cede the entire procession and will play a funeral dirge : firemen to be pallbearers the active pallbearers who wil^erve at decorated hose wagon which will serve as hearse at the funeral to-day of fire marshal james horan his helmet is shown on top of the wagon firemen who led cortege at the funeral of lieutenant branderiberg eleanor sears can't fly boston girl denies she will enter in aeroplane contest boston dec 25 1 can't fly and i'm not going west said miss eleanor sears to-day when asked if it was true that an aeroplane flight between her and miss enid gregg an actress was to be the closing event in an aero meet at san francisco why i couldn't make an aeroplane go except by pushing it she added laugh ingly athlete m'grath shoots man in home victim who is called burglar by assailant declares he was the guest of wife new york dec 25 matt mcgrath the former champion hammer thrower and member of the all-american athletic team that won the world's championship at athens and in london was arrested this morning for shooting a man in his home 708 east fifth street flatbush mcgrath is a policeman george walker the man shot was charged with burglary by mc grath who took him to the parkville sta tion walker who is a telephone com pany employe and is promiuont in a polit ical w ay denies he was in the home of the policeman for purposes of burglary he says he was invited fhere by mrs mcgrath and was considered a friend of the mc grath family walker is in a critical condition in the kings county hospital mcgrath has been held on a charge of felonious assault and mrs mcgrath says she does not ' know walker and never saw him until he was shot inspector dillon in charge of the police district iu which the shooting oc curred has made an investigation and will make a report to commissioner cropsey mcgrath who was to have been on duty on christmas morning reported ill to the lieutenant on the desk of the hamilton avenue station at 1 o'clock this morning and went home it was an hour later when he dragged walker into the park ville police station and arraigned him be fore lieutenant altenbnch and charged walker with being a burglar â€¢ gifts spurned collapses mrs john o schenk accused of poisoning husband is 111 in jail wheeling w va dec 25 when the trinkets she had made for her two little children while confined a prisoner ln the ohio county jail charged with poison ing her millionaire husband john o schenk were returned to-day with a note stating the presents were not acceptable mrs laura farnsworth schenk collapsed she is said to be in a serious condition while her two children played around the knee of their father under a christmas tree loaded down with valuable gifts the mother sat weeping the recipient of not a single present cigar kills 3 injures 19 lighted is thrown among powder kegs at family reunion greensburcf.vpa dec 25 a smolder ing cigar in the home of michael wilding last night caused a fearful tragedy the tragedy ended an annual family reunion and dance the dance was at its height in the little home of the miner when the cigar was tossed away it alighted in the midst of some powder kegs the resulting explosion killed three and injured nine teen at least half of the injvsred are ex pected to die l dry sunday threatened by sullivan in gas war aid bauler and charles keller mann say boss promised to pass saloon closing law unless 70-cent rate fight ends de facto head of peoples co declared to have started boom for prohibitionist as minority leader battle to cut exorbitant charges will be continued despite politician's methods says president of new league drop the fight for 70-cent gas or 1 will have a law passed by the legislature that will close the saloons of Chicago on sun day this utterance is imputed to roger c sullivan de facto president of the peoples gas light <_ coke company in a statement issued last night by alderman herman j bauler and charles 11 kellermann presi dent of the united societies the statement says that frank s ryan county comptroller and chief lieutenant of sullivan let it be known to me ns bauler kellermann and other member â– _* the united societies yesterday was talking for sulljian and the gas in terest in addition the statement charges â– 'â– â– â– '. sullivan is doing all in his power to make representative george english an a prohibitionist-democrat the mi ijemocratic leader of the house and that tho activity of sullivan in behalf of lisli is part of the plan to wreau vengeance on the united societies and the to-cect gas league following is the bauler-kellermmi ment : roger sullivan's newest venture into t political field is indeed the strangest and most inconsistent move attempted by that past master of inconsistencies sullivan is standing sponsor for and doing all in his power to put over at the coming ses sion of the Illinois legislature george eng lish as minority leader in the house of representatives i record of english given he is a country lawyer in that district and this will be his third term ln tha house his district is a dyed-in-the-wool local option one and english was not only elected by a local option constituency on â€¢ local option ticket but he is a rabid local optionlst one of the fiercest and most pr nouuced in the state in fact english has been for the past two sessions of the house the leader and spokesman for the local option canse on tha democratic side standing for voting for and agitating for local option county fea ture and all at all times he has mad speech after speech on the floor of th house in favor of local option and tried to have passed what was known as tha search and seizure bill a measure per mitting the searching of any premises fo the purpose of finding liquor there aiao on the 26th of may 1900 during he roll fall in the house when william lorimer was elected to the united states senate english administered to all demo cratic representatives a scathing excoria tion practically accusing them of haying sold their votes for money english backed by sullivan this is the english who re-elected upon a local option platform is seeking the minority leadership of the Illinois house he is being backed to the limit by roger sullivan one of roger sullivan's chief lieutau ants county comptroller frank s ii said to alderman hei nan 1 baul other members of the i nited terday that if he did do stop mon ey_i;t with the gas proposition pverj â– â€¢, a the city of Chicago .\ .â€¢â– ! â€¢ e<l on sundays ryan who m it be known he was talking for : bhfl_i and the gas gang m m tnglish as a minority leader "''^| house backed by sullivan proposes to i through a full fledgec local o;,tion bill o^nw if graham be electee mayor the dose wil ' be completed by bow ig to t_e will of the 1 sunday closing coter'i this is the sulli van plan to punish e who have dared to disturb the gas situau i tle most vitnl question of public policy before the citizens of Chicago to-dny alderman bauler said last night sullivan's support of english for fhcfl minority leadership is part of the planh to carry out ryan's threat we will nom drop the fight for cheaper gas howeverj : we will fight the gas boss in the legi^fl ' ture as well as in every ward and mm t^jjoc^jn Chicago 3 continued on 2d page ist columi continued on 4th page 2nd^^lyjyj ____ i when mrs mcseeker has bed rooms to let she don't wring her hands or get worried or fret she writes an examiner ad right away and all her spare rooms are filled up the next day used fob besui/ts ih lica_^^^panua_i wants get what you want

Chicago examiner j ,._- Chicago and vicinity fair mon x'f day probably becoming unsettled /,.' tuesday not much change in tem f perature moderate westerly winds becoming variable temperature for the day highest 28 c^sg lowest u )$^ avenge 20 vol ix no 4 a m monday Chicago december 26 1910 16 pages monday registered in d s patent office enter the word contest 5,000 in valuable prizes will be awarded to successful contestants see wart ad pages price one cent g * 525 examiner's fund gives yule cheer i children in glee see santa aus and receive heart's content in gifts nks for the chums ago patrons of the desti te care for all homeless youngsters stmas that was real a feast day d and joyous enveloped Chicago day ity organized and widespread as before penetrated even the nooks rners of the poverty-smitten quarters town and the most squalid homes rowded institutions knew the glory noel celebration e may have been homes that santa i stockings hung up that he forgot so these eluded the most vigilant ever made in Chicago for the little ags of the poor lodly share of this christmas gayety the unfortunates was financed by 110 fund for the examiner's christ harities made possible through the generosity Chicago home for the friendless at first street and vincennes avenue re santa clans betimes yesterday morn the youngsters 203 of them were ag soundly shortly before 6 o'clock they were awakened by three shrill from a trumpet dazed and dream ley opened their eyes to find santa iu their midst and two magnificent the gift of the examiner's fund g in glory ; captures santa claus of cribs and beds they tumbled but happy crowding around the of the day and little james the it-eyed curliest-headed baby of them ttie five-year-old james the mother atherless pet of the home rushed up ta clutched him tightly rouud the and cried out shrilly ove you oh i love you santa " l child got a new pair of stockings 1 with candy and nuts aijjd fruit and dolls for the girls games balls and for the boys and when it was all the little night-gown brigades eud into bed again hugging their toys gleefully exchanging reports of the rations into the treasure depths of brand new hosiery nwhile the industrial class composed xteen of the older girls marched h the halls arousing all the resi of the home with the sweet music fashioned christmas carols at noon was a turkey and chicken dinner ry best of their kind in is santa claus jordan was the kris kringle and the programme was planned by miss ng superintendent of the home e couldn't have had a nicer christ 1 said miss helbing everybody was nerous and i wish that i conld per y thank all those who contributed to ixaminer fund for the presents and wo trees that the examiner sent us were really lovely the Chicago industrial sebool had its celebration thanks to the examiner's con tributions yesterday morning at 11 o'clock the salvation army will have their trees to-morrow evening and the volunteers of america their parties through the week christmas dinner for the jail will be served to-day good shepherd benefits i the house of the good shepherd also benefited by the examiner's fund brushes combs and workboxes were given to the lder girls and women and candy and toys to the smaller children each of the county institutions had turkey chicken and goose dinners altogether the county institutions and their 0,000 inmates and charges had 8,000 pounds of turkey these institutions the dunning insane asylum county hospital juvenile deten tion home and oak forest infirmary had christmas trees as well as feasts the re mainder of the examiner's christmas din ners will be distributed this week county agent joseph meyer who gave out christmas supplies to 6,000 families the latter part of last week kept his offices open all day yesterday and such of the poor as had been forgotten or overlooked were cared for there 2,873 italian children made happy at mission there were 2,873 separate and distinct kind of joy yesterday at the guardian angel mission 714 forquer street in the heart of the italian settlement just that many members of the second largest sun day school iu the world participated in the mission's eleventh christmas festivities vo woman iu Chicago was happier than mrs w a amberg who was one of the prime movers in the establishment of the mission of which bishop dunne of peoria was the priest in its struggling early days her joy in serving the little folk was dress expert opposes pajamas for women mrs ellen richards declares attire suggested for home use will not give freedom expected boston mass dee 25 mrs ellen richards one of boston's foremost dress experts disagrees with her english cousins who advocate that women work in the household attired in pajamas with a ki mono handy in case callers arrive she says that man's garments do not in reality give him the freedom of movement he believes he enjoys and declares ibat women would not have the ideal working attire if garbed in pajamas mrs rich ards has traveled all around the world and her idea of an ideal costume for women is the attire of the peasantry of norway the norwegian peasant costume is the most comfortable she explained it con sists of a skirt terminating about ten inches above the floor no corsets are worn and the waist is made to fit snugly an apron helps protect the knees and the en semble of clothes is loose fitting moderate heeled broad shoes are preferred in this costume they go into the moun tains to spend the summer tending their goat herds it allows them absolute free dom of movement six drown as ship sinks off dutch coast crew goes down when the liner finland strikes the baltique ten men are rescued special cable to the examiner antwerp dec 25 the steamship finland and belgian steamship baltique were in collision to-day at the mouth of the river escaut or scheldt as it is more commonly known the baltique sank quickly and six sailors all the members of the crew ex cepting ten men were drowned the rescued were taken on board the finland the men who were drowned were sleep ing at the time of the accident and went down with the steamer the finland has gone to newcastle to investigate what damage she sustained d'aulby's son in Chicago countess said to be coming to edu cate children in . u s special cable to the examiner paris dec 25 behind the suit brought by the duchess de choiseul pras ten against the self-styled count d'aulby whom she charges with selling to her late husband 200,000 worth of fake paintings the american colony sees nothing more ihan a skirmish in a social war which the duchess and d'aulby's wife have long waged the duchess was lucy tate be fore phe married charles hamilton paine the countess was francesca lunt both women are former bostonians the suit may have the effect of seeding them into retirement for a time countess d'aulby recently expressed a desire to have her children educated in america and she may return there her twelve-year old son is with her sister in Chicago u s to stop filibuster cruiser tacoma guarding honduran capital from bonilla special cable to the examiner puerto cortbz honduras dec 25 the american ship hornet which sailed from new orleans last week is reported to be heading for this port with general manuel bonilla and general lee christ mas and a party of american filibusterers on board their object it is said is to bombard the palace and overthrow the davlla government the american cruiser tacoma is stripped for action and ready to stop the hornet should it attempt a bombardment blue jackets will be landed to patrol the streets of this city girl helps save 5 lives two are drowned trying to reach bark in thirty-mile gale norfolk va dec 25 miss addie parkerson sixteen years old helped to launch a life boat and save five men from the bark kingdom in chesapeake bay near ocean view last night seven men from the bark attempted to go to their ship in a dory and were capsized in a thirty-mile northwestern gale a sailor named st clair and another man o'connor were drowned the men were all members of the holy ghost and us sect a new re ligion that hud its origin in maine the five survivors refused to toil their names to build 500,000 temple spiritualists subscribe 100,000 as beginning of fund new york dec 25.-tbe rev rufus a macurda of the first spiritualist so ciety of new york announced to-day that a temple costing 500,000 will be erected shortly by that society within a short time he said more than 100,000 has been pledged by a group of wealthy persons among them several millionairei who are interested in the spirit cult the edifice will be named temple of the divine in spiration and will be erected in the cen tral part of thr^lty bandit holds up a train and escapes passenger shot in head lone robber relieves 20 of money and valuables cuts bell cord and disappears kansas city mo dec 25 a mis souri pacific train from st joseph due here at 10:20 to-night was robbed just be fore entering kansas city kan by a lone masked robber who boarded the train at leavenworth junction the bandit began at tffe rear of the train nnd lined up the passengers with a re volver held in one hand while he searched them with the other taking watches and money twenty persons were robbed end ing with the conductor s 0 may of kan sas city the robber jumped from the train at a dark spot inside the kansas city kan limits and escaped r m johnson a civil engineer of leav enworth was struck on the head by the bandit who used his gun for a club john son was too slow in raising his hands when commanded to do so . i entered the observation compartment at that moment and thinking that some one of the boys was playing a christmas joke said conductor may to-night i asked here here what are you doing " hold up your bands â€” you replied the robber i didn't get them up fast enough and he made a swat at me with his gun j striking me but not injuriug me severely | i got my hands iup in _ hurry and then j his next command was turn your faces to the wall a man who said his name was n'ediow turned and made a move that was inter preted as unfriendly by the robber for at that instant a bullet was sent through his scalp causing a severe wound one by oge the robber took us and searched us throwing our tickets and pa pers on the floor and taking our money and watches as he finished he pulled out a knife and cut the signal cord this pre vented us from signaling the engineer at the outskirts of kansas city we made the usual stop for the northwestern railroad crossing at that place the robber compelling the porter to open the vesti bule doors and he jumped off the train the distance between leavenworth and kansas city and in iwhieh the robber oper . ated is twenty-seven miles there are no stops in this distance holly is cause of death inserted in burner falls turns on gas and kills woman it was a cheerless christmas for mrs edward e tiffin of 5118 cornell avenue for yesterday morning when she knocked at the door of her mother's room lips formed trj wish her a merry christmas she found her parent mrs eda may simp son cold in death an open valve on the gas burner was silent evidence of the cause we had a holly wreath attached to the chandelier of mrs simpson's room said mr tiffin and in the night it became detached probably from the vibration of an Illinois central train there was a twig of this holly inserted iu a hole in the tap of the fixture we found the holly on the floor iu falling the twig of the holly turned the tap which was loose and allowed the gas to escape wild man points to gold miner tells of half-clad desert inhab itant who gives away mine san bernardino cal dec 25 clad only in a breechclout wearing sandals and armed with a shotgun a wild man is at large in the colorado desert according to the statement of philip hess a miner he says he has verified this statement by filing on a gold claim which he says is fabulously rich and which he declares was shown to him by the wild man stake that out the wild man is re ported saying and go back and tell your friends that a man who was once a rich new yorker and blew in a fortune guided yon to riches captain bartlett of otis who believes he knows the identity of the wild man has gone to search for him economy delays mails shortage of postal clerks hampers handling of holiday letters if yon didn't get that christmas package don't worry it is riding around some where in the united states because the government is economizing hundreds of tons of mail matter according to railway mail clerks have been riding back and forth on the various railroads for the simple reason that there are not enough men on duty to handle them the post master general has been conducting his boasted economy at the expense of the public said a weary mail clerk i re ceived a letter to-day that had been four days coming from des moines la prof a s hill is dead boston dec 25 adams sherman hill professor emeritus of rhetoric and oratory at harvard university and the author notable books on rhetoric died at his home here to-day aged seventy-seven years thugs drag woman in alley to beat her escape after a chase mrs mary bruck wife of furni ture dealer attacked in shadow of home attacked by two thugs almost within the shadow of her home shortly after dark last night mrs mary bruck forty live years old 1019 west monroe street was severely beaten and is in a critical condition mrs bruck is the wife of henry bruck a wealthy furniture dealer at 1131 west madison street the attack was made at sangamon and monroe streets my wife was returning from the home of her brother james callaghan 273 south sangamon street when she was at tacked by two men said her husband last night her brother john is dead and she went to the home of her brother james to take care of the children while he arranged for the funeral thugs hide irr-alley there is a small alley on monroe street near sangamon the thugs hid in this place and when she passed they seized her and dragged her into the dark passage way they did not attempt to search her but set upon her with their fists and beat her terribly her right ear is almost severed and she is badly bruised about the he*d ana body there is a cut two inches long on her cheek mrs bruck was not able to give a description of the men but i am convinced that the attack was prompted by the news that she w